The overwhelming sentiment in baseball is that the CBA will prevent amateur talent from coming into baseball, tweets Jeff Passan of Yahoo.More from Passan (via Twitter) as he writes that the new amateur rules will have the greatest effect on successful, low-revenue teams like the Rays, which now have even less room for error than before.There's already major concern among some baseball officials about the impact of the changes to the draft and the international signings cap on the player talent pool, Buster Olney of ESPN.com tweets. The new CBA makes it tougher for teams to draft two-sport stars like the Angels did with Jake Locker, tweets Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times. The Angels drafted Locker in the 10th round of the 2009 draft but the quarterback instead graduated from the University of Washington and was drafted eighth overall in the 2011 NFL Draft by the Titans.

Would it be allowed to sign the player to a slot level bonus with an unnofficial agreement between the draftee and the club to re structure the players deal after he is initially signed? Bud selig would be furious but would that be possible?

I saw the deal compared a bit to communism. Might be a bit over the top, but I can see where they were coming from. I also saw Selig touting that we've now had 21 years of labor peace. If the GM's were left completely out of this deal and it is the disaster everyone thinks it will be, I don't think we'll have labor peace after this deal is over. Is there any room for them to file suit? Collusion or something like that, perhaps?

I'd say the Nats might have caught another huge break with this deal coming when it did after the last 3 drafts they've had.

Holy crap, the real winners of the CBA are the lawyers. The tax codes are less complicated. I wanted to scan through the deal to try to figure out how it helps/hurts the Nats, but screw that, I'd rather watch Beavis and Butthead.